Under a new legal agreement, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether pangolins, the world’s most trafficked mammals, should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
A new generation of designers and resource specialists is springing up around the textile waste created by the fashion industry—and taking it to market.
NRDC is focused on four bills in addition to contributing to efforts on a host of other pending bills to advance racial justice, economic recovery and public health.
Late last week, the Trump Administration’s USDA announced that it would significantly reduce funds available to help farmers cover the cost of organic certification.
When the first rolling blackouts in two decades struck California late last week, many were quick to invoke an earlier California electricity crisis and look for a convenient villain. But we need first to understand exactly what happened and to…
The Green Goblin is back. Not the Stan Lee supervillain, but something much more insidious and harmful: outbreaks of toxic green algae in waterways throughout the United States.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today is expected to formally open the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas leasing. The agency’s Record of Decision will pave the way for fossil fuel leasing to begin in the 1.5 million-acre Coastal Plain in…
The Interior Department is opening up the entire Coastal Plain of the refuge to polluters—at the expense of Indigenous peoples' traditional ways of life, numerous wildlife species, and the climate.
The White House reportedly intends to withdraw the nomination of William Perry Pendley for director of the Bureau of Land Management. Pendley, who has made racist statements and is an advocate for selling off public lands, would remain in an…
Under the leadership of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the City of Atlanta has put itself on a fast track to meeting its climate and equity goals with the creation of the City’s first Department of Transportation (ATLDOT).
The industry can now ignore wasteful leaks of the potent greenhouse gas, posing a significant threat to our climate and the health of fenceline communities.
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